Fall Bass Fishing Tips

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The summer / fall transition is requarded as tough
times by many anglers, butfollow some of my advice and it will not be so
tough. A lot of us know that if we hitthe lakes right now the surface temperature would be
in the high 80's. Even though the airis cooling, some lakes remain warm beneath their
surface layer, which keep bass deep.

Try and think about what I said in earlier articles
about smaller lakes will turnover. What I mean is the smaller lakes will get into
the winter pattern a lot sooner than the bigReservoirs. I will go back to thespring bass fishing
advice I gave you which is to find the bait fish and I
canpromise you some great fish.

The bait fish will slowly migrate to the back of the
covesto the shallow water where it is still warm and
along with them, they will havesome Bass Hogs following at their tails. Here again
I say look for wood / rock / grass / boat docks.

At first light, cast a surface lure Example: Buzzbait / Propbait /
Popper and my number one choice is the Kelly Kicker Fish bait companyExplodin Toad. If you have missed the article on the frog, go and read it then stock up on the frogs. I
kid you not, once you spend a day casting those frogs; you will be hooked as I am.

As the day wears on, you might want to try some
crankbaits - Example: Square Bill / Lipless /Strike King Sexy Shad and last but not least the
spinner-bait.

I got to tell you that I was fishing a cove and
sitting on top of a school of shad and dropped a Baby Brushhog right in the middle of the school and when it
was almost to the bottom, my rod bent double.

The big Bass Hogs are laying below the school of
shad. When a small bass hits a shad and it sinks to the deeper water; Bass Hog is waiting for a easy meal.
Always keep a topwater lure tied on and in hot standby if you pull into a cove and the top of the water is
alive with fish.

By Midday the Big Bass Hogs will move to either
Channels / Dropoffs / Ledges / Long points. A under water hump or a submerged roadbed, this is where I would
employ a Carolina Rig softplastic or a deep Lip Crankbait.

One thing that you have to stop
and think this is the time the Corp ofEngineers start to drop the lake levels to winter
pool and a lot of time the bass will pullout of the shallows and head for the deep
water.

On the other hand I have caught some great Hogs this
time of year, look for grass just under the surface and throw a spinnerbait (Quad Blade) in the grass and rip
it. See if you do not get the surprise of your life when the Bass comes out of no where and explodes on your
"Spinnerbait or Chatterbait".

If you have tried the grass and found that the bass
are not in the grass, try just on the outside of the grass. I would pull my boat up to the grass edge to
throw right down the line of the grass with a top-water lure then a spinnerbait, and last a Texas rigged
Worm.

Follow these steps and do not miss up coming
articles that will be coming on how to get MR. Bass Hog Out of the Fall Transition. These steps will work for
you as they have for me.